Tell kids y' all gotta start working, maybe cut some of them school hours and go work as the shampoo girl so that your mama can get a. Can get money to do what we know. Did we cut poverty in half when we expanded the child tax credit to include the most, the poorest, the 17 million kids that this bill doesn't cover. So at the end of the day, the main thing. Let's keep the main thing. The main thing, that this legislation before us will make Americans more in debt, will make them hungrier, will make them sicker, will make them more ignorant. (11:58–12:12)
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Asserts that expanding the child tax credit previously cut poverty in half for 17 million children.
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